Opacification of Array SA40N silicone multifocal intraocular lens
Accepted 17 September 2006.
We report opacification of 2 multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs). Patients with these IOLs may be more likely to require IOL explantation than those with monofocal IOLs.
From the Essex County Hospital (Elgohary, Zaheer, Sheldrick, Ahmed), Colchester, and Moorfields Eye Hospital (Ionides), London, United Kingdom; and the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and Berlin Eye Research Institute (Werner), Berlin, Germany
Corresponding author: Mostafa Elgohary, Essex County Hospital, Lexden Road, Colchester CO3 3NB, United Kingdom.
No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
Supported in part by the Research to Prevent Blindness Olga Keith Wiess Scholar Award (Werner).
Presented as an e-poster at the XXIVth Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, London, England, September 2006.
David M. Andrenyak, Center for Human Toxicology, University of Utah, assisted with the laboratory analysis.
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